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Representatives from higher education organizations fought hard to insert provisions which would protect their members. The two largest organizations, the American Council on Education (ACE), an umbrella group of almost all colleges and universities in the nation, and the AAU, lobbied especially hard, but to no avail--The bill passed...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: University Lobbying Efforts Criticized | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...association voted Tuesday to fire Auclair because of the satirical insert in the April Fool's issue of the paper. The student senators conducted the vote by closed ballot because several of them said they feared retaliation if they made their positions public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor In Trouble Over Telephone Sex Joke | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

...Durang let his perhaps jealous anger get away from him, and so occasionally the satire sinks to the level of characters shouting at the audience, "See! This is a symbol! It's supposed to mean something!" The audience survives only because Durang finds a way once again to insert more mini-parodies, one of which, a version of Pygmalion as directed by Robert Wilson, finally reaches the level of invention we had hoped for all night. But it will be lost on anyone who hasn't seen any of the Wilson pieces at the A.R.T., and who doesn't realize...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: The Weird Kid In The Classroom | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

While the general thrust behind the Suns seems to be an investigation of how little structure a song can have and still be a song, Big Dipper insert their bursts of oddity within relatively normal frameworks. All the songs on Dipper's debut EP, Boo-Boo, are vaguely recognizable forms of straight rock and roll, country or pop balladry. "Faith Healer," for example is a conventional rock tune made interesting by a contorted and bizarre riff, seemingly some sort of comment on the TV preacher of the title...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Nessie, I Love You | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Rarely has the traditional "Hey (insert name of opposing goalie here) you're not a sieve, you're a funnel..." cheer been chanted louder. And most of the fans lingered in the stands for five minutes after the final buzzer in order to watch the Harvard band perform...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Icemen Skate Over Bruins, 5-2 | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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